Product Description

Alexandra and Jenny have been best friends for a long time. But when Alexandra is momentarily dazzled by the glamour of a new girl at school, she's willing to do almost anything to get to be the cool girl's friend. Ultimately, she tells Jenny's biggest, most important secret--and just like that, Alexandra is in! But when Alexandra realizes what it feels like to lose her best friend, and sees the hurt she's caused, she knows she has to figure out a way to regain the relationship that's far more important to her than being invited to sit with the popular girls. Our Friendship Rules is both a lyrical story of forgiveness and a simple, sweet but instructive tale of how to get along.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #381580 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

Review
"... smart life lesson about how to tell a real friendship from a phony one...how to behave like a real friend...equally applicable to boys." -- Kennebec Journal, September 30, 2007

"...realistic...engaging...friendship is something that you need to work at...illustrations are created with an engaging mix of pencil drawings, paintings and collage." -- Puget Sound Council for Reviewing Children's Media, October 2007

"...strong narrative text and collage illustrations...fine reading and provides good material for thoughtful discussion." -- Yellow Brick Road - September/October 2007

"...well-crafted new books for young people...explores quite a different angle of children in groups - taking sides against each other..." -- Bangor Daily News, December 10, 2007

"Friends forever; Children's book stresses the values of true friendship..." -- Brunswick Times Record, August 16, 2007

Gold Medal - Picture Books All Ages -- Moonbeam Award, 2007

From the Publisher
Independent Publisher's First Annual Moonbeam Children's Book Awards: Gold Medal Winner - Picture Book (All Ages)

About the Author
Peggy Moss is a writer, educator, former hate-crime prosecutor, and the author of Say Something. She lives in Freeport, Maine. Dee Dee Tardif is a writer, card player, and hide-and-seek champion. She's in grade nine, in Toronto, Ontario. Alissa Imre Geis started drawing when she was two, drew her way through school, graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, and has illustrated several books for children including Winnie at Her Best and Neil's Castle, which she also wrote. She lives in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts.

Customer Reviews

True, true, true -- and beautiful too
Pitch-perfect, non-preachy, told in an authentic voice with a perfect economy of words, and so very very real, OUR FRIENDSHIP RULES is a seamless marriage of story and picture.

Our narrator, Alexandra, is a visual thinker and a budding artist, so it is perfectly fitting that more than half of this story is told via Imre Geis's crisp and joyful illustrations and crafty-girl collages (many of which allow the reader a peek into Alexandra's notebooks and sketchbooks).

As a career children's bookseller and mother of two, I would personally recommend this book to children from age 5 to 13, as well as to parents, teachers, librarians, and adult friends in need of re-writing their own 'friendship rules.'

A beautiful book!
This is an incredibly beautiful book. It's an amazingly honest rendering of girls' friendships, their strengths and their pitfalls. Most impressively, it is hopeful without being either preachy or saccharine. You will love it!

A straightforward story about learning to get along with and respect others
Written by former hate-violence prosecutor Peggy Moss and ninth grader Dee Dee Tardif, Our Friendship Rules is a children's picturebook about the true value of friendship. Two girls, Alexandra and Jenny, have been best friends for a long time. But when Alexandra is drawn by the allure of a new student, she'll do almost anything to become the cool girl's best friend - even tell Jenny's most private secret. Then she learns what it feels like to lose her best friend, and see the pain she's caused. Can a broken friendship be rebuilt? What are the rules that should govern a friendship? A straightforward story about learning to get along with and respect others, illustrated with distinctive collage-style paintings by Alissa Imre Geis.